Archives for
January 2008

In my humble opinion, Mashable is a pretty great blog, so we're happy to accept the recognition from EliteChoice.org, which has lined up 125 of its favorite blogs of 2007. The site has named Mashable an elite blog for social networking news. Among th...

John Battelle posted his predictions for 2008 today, and focused primarily on advertising. Thankfully, contrary to most of the media's dismal projections for the economy and advertising, he remained optimistic for the future of the web and how we'll ...

Homebrewing is the tradition of video game enthusiasts trying to crack their various gaming platforms and getting them to do things the designers did not originally intend. For the really adventurous out there, you can also start to learn about makin...

Google has been indexing pages faster in what looks like an attempt to provide some semblance of real time search queries on particular topics, and while this has become more than evident today, it's also raising some serious questions on Google's pr...

Could our humble Mashable community be in the running for a coveted Bloggie award? With your help, yes! The nominations phase of the Bloggies has begun. If you like Mashable and can spare a few seconds, please go to this page and nominate us in as ma...

The Middle East has had quite a time with legal issues surrounding the use of free speech in regards to the web and other publications, along with a handful of other countries around the globe. This is emphasized today with the confirmed detention of...

Perhaps I'm searching for validation for my sweeping hyperbole about the "death" of the music industry associations, or perhaps the writing on the wall I'm reading is in a language that others can understand as well. Either way, the pro-artist and pr...

2008 is the year of the mobile internet, right? We hear that every year. Let's forget about predictions and focus on what's available right now. We bring you over 20 mobile internet applications that you'll actually use. Bookmarking Mobiseer.com - Fi...

If you're geek at heart, like most of us here at Mashable are, you gotta appreciate science fiction just a little bit. Having started my SF geekdom career with a pinch of Stanislaw Lem and Clifford Simak, continuing with a whole lot of Gibson and Ste...

Oh, man, the jokes just keep on coming. Whiskipedia - as the name implies - is encyclopedia of booze; more precisely, whisky, but it covers all alcoholic beverages. Unfortunately, currently it kinda sucks. The form is familiarly wikipedian, but the c...

Here's a Digg-like site that actually sounds interesting for a change. It's a music repository; a place where lesser known musicians can upload their songs for everyone to hear (or buy; all songs are DRM-free). But, instead of being just a directory ...

First, the American presidential candidates, then (reportedly) the outgoing Australian Prime Minister. Then the Queen of British Empire. Now the Japanese Prime Minister. It seems now anyone who is anyone is posting videos to YouTube. Today, Japanese ...

FohBoh is a new social network that's been launched for the business individuals involved in the restaurant industry. If you're involved with this sector, you'll recognize FoBoh as standing for Front of the House and Back of the House, which refers t...

While the tech blogosphere has been gearing up for the post holiday rush of news, it has yet to have descended upon us. As such, we've all been seemingly enraptured by Allen Stern's question today: Is Twitter F'd? Many from the so-called "A-List" hav...

The rumored "Google-killer" Wikia Search will be available in alpha form soon, according to an email to the Wikia Search mailing list by Jimmy Wales. The email was sent December 24th, and states that Monday, the first public preview of the new searc...

Previously announced Twiistup 3 is only several weeks away and approaching fast. Twiistup 3, which will be held on January 16th in Venice, CA, will be focusing on “New Year’s Resolutions.” Sources tell us that none other than Perez Hilton, a fellow F...

The Boy Genius Report is carrying a nice bit of exclusive news today they claim to have confirmed: Jay-Z is launching a record label with Apple. This comes hot on the heels of his departure from Def Jam as president of the label last month, and specu...

I'm not sure about the rest of the country, but Chicago officially became a smoke-free city yesterday, Jan. 1, 2008. Whether or not this will help motivate smokers to quit, I also wouldn't know, but a site launched in Pennsylvania could be helpful fo...

Buddy Media, a Facebook application development company, has acquired five facebook applications from ChipIn, Inc. marking another deal for the company, weeks after taking on Crushes. Within the network owned by ChipIn, there are a reported 150+ mill...

The holidays are wrapping up, the gloves are about to come back off, and we're going to see the political invective and high-energy campaigning kick up a notch here in the next few days, especially in the early primary states. The first state to be p...

The Pirate Bay has launched an interesting new side project called slopsbox, a service that ensures that your spam and identity protection needs will be taken care of simultaneously. The service is particularly useful for all sorts of purposes. One t...

There was much rejoicing in the New Media in 2007 when the indicators of the last paywall would be coming down. In fact, if memory serves, several applications of President Reagan's "tear down that wall" quote were made. That is somewhat understandab...

Bang Ventures isn't a way to get funding for your startup, but it is the latest to launch a resource for entrepreneurs hoping to make it big in the web 2.0 game. Its differentiating factor? Go after the ideas, not the programmers, according to Ventur...

ChaCha, the search engine that's backed by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, is getting ready to launch another branch of its search tool: textChaCha. As you all know, ChaCha's claim to fame is the actual humans behind its search tool that will chat with you as i...

5min has appropriately raised $5 million in a Series A financing round from Spark Capital. The how-to video site has been quietly growing in a sector we haven't seen much activity in lately, outside of some niche developments particularly geared for ...

Closet Assistant is a new website that's supposed to help you create outfits based on what you already own, similar to GroupRecipes that helps you figure out what to eat based on the food that's already in your kitchen pantry. That's what it's suppos...

In case you needed another company to choose from when selecting your next set top box for streaming Internet video content directly into your 50" HDTV, consider Netflix. The DVD rental king is making another somewhat preemptive strike in the movie r...

As some of the readers (and editors) of my articles will attest to, my typing skills leave something to be desired. While I use all of the fingers of my right hand, I only use the index finger of my left. Yep, I'm a horrible typist, and I won't even ...

If you happen to be a pottymouth as well as an avid Twitter user, you'll rejoice for Twitertale, the site that tells on you every time you use a bad word. And it's fast, too! Just before beginning my review of Twittertale, I updated my own Twitter ac...

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